Xanthe Veronica Dalglish (née Ryder) (15 May 1926 – 1 January 1998), wife of Michael de Lauret Dalglish, was a British alpine skier who competed under the name Xanthe Ryder in two events at the

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Family Background

Xanthe Veronica Ryder was the middle daughter of British peer Major Algernon Frederick Roland Dudley Ryder and his

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wife Edythe Olive Baillie. Her elder sister was Dione Frances Ryder (b.1924) and younger sister was Charis Elizabeth Ryder (b.1930).

1948 Winter Olympics

After finishing third in the

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at the Flatlander’s Championship at Mürren in January 1948, Ryder was selected for the Great Britain team in February of the same year. Ryder competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics, St Moritz, for Team Great Britain under the number 82238 in two events: Alpine skiing combined and Alpine skiing downhill. Ryder finished 27th in Alpine Skiing (Combined) and 34th in Alpine Skiing (Downhill). In addition to Ryder, the British Ladies' Olympic Ski Team was composed of Miss Rosemarie Sparrow, Mrs. Bunty Greeland, Miss Evelyn Pinching (trainer), Mrs. Biddy Duke-Woolley, Miss

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and Miss

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. The team's captain Miss Isobel Roe, a close friend of Ryder's, would go on to receive the Pery Medal by the

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Marriage

Ryder married Michael de Lauret Dalglish on 27 April 1949 at the Brompton Oratory, followed by a reception in Mayfair, London. Notable attendees at the wedding were covered in Tatler and included her husband's aunt and uncle: Elinor Clare Millais (née Macdonell) and British painter

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. Ryder and Dalglish had three children: James Thomas Macdonell Dalglish (b.1950), Charles Baillie Dalglish (b.1953), and Clare Mary Dalglish (b.1956).City of Westminster Archives Centre; London, England, UK; Westminster Electoral Records; Reference: RE/PBStM/1950

References

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